Positives, Needs & Hopes from Arsenal 5 Bournemouth 1 The Recipe for Identity POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES As a coach I have always held the belief that your identity should be a by product of your ability to find the best system for your best players enabling them to play […]
The Herbert Chapman derby, as it were, ended in an Arsenal win. The game perhaps wasn’t the best, but I’m sure Mr Chapman is looking down and happy to see both of his prodigy performing in the top division. His Yorkshire former club is certainly going down this season – though on this showing they […]
The Spectacular Unspectacular POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES Fans need hope but boy, oh boy has society done a number on our levels of patience. Yesterday, was a spectacular display of seriousness. Flicking through Twitter I have started to only pay attention to those who don’t have extreme views. “We are awful”, “So and so is […]
The Return of Rhythm? POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES This season, and even during the unbeaten run, I was very concerned at the lack of big chances we were creating. Perhaps the constant formation changes and line ups have been responsible? Today we created 9 big chances in the second half! So the question becomes….. how […]
Did Emery replace our defence with a sieve? This may surprise some, but I think our display wasn’t all bad at Anfield. This ground is an odd one for us – we’ve had some immense highs (1989) and deep lows. This has to go along with the lows. We created chances in some […]
Arsenal 3-1 Burnley review This early kick-off was a chance to get a win after the Scum and Southampton defeats. And we got this, though it wasn’t all plain sailing. Burnley started in the relegation zone, and for this reason alone it was never going to be easy. Sokratis returned, and Elneny started as […]
A more comfortable discomfort POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES When we look back on Emery’s first season I’d say that our first memory will be how he made us a team of men. We bought ‘men’ in the summer and the coach had us working like a team of ‘men.’ Today was uncomfortable throughout but a […]
ARSENAL 1-1 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS PREMIER LEAGUE REVIEW – 11TH NOV. 2018 Even though today was Remembrance Day and the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, this performance wasn’t one to remember. Due to a mix of a sound Wolves game plan, poor passing from Arsenal, and attacking ineptitude, Arsenal could only scrape a draw […]
I watched as much of our pre season fixtures as possible and wanted to share some of my initial observations of what I’ve seen so far in the Unai Emery era. Before I do that, I would like to take the opportunity to point out that offering opinions that don’t blow smoke up the players […]
We host AC Milan today, merely a week after the first leg. Such are the perks of Europa League though: we have to play catch-up with the Champions League schedule-wise, so ours is a bit more packed as a result. If there was a time I’d prefer the return leg, however, I would say […]
